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Show Page B8 Thursday, May 26. 1983 Park City News r by Rick Ilrough movies are like junk food: binge now, pay later Summer Will be reopening Memorial Day weekend. Summer hours 11:30 - 9:00 We will be serving all items on the menu and luncheon specials on our outdoor deck. Take out and delivery service available. Park City Village 649-4060 j Looking for a good meal See our Restaurant Guide Page B9 I like to watch bad movies sometimes. The effect is like vacuuming your brain. I don't know if the upcoming upcom-ing season of summer movies is going to be that bad. But looking at the list, you feel like suction is being applied to your head. One big problem here is sequel-mania. Hollywood, they say, has no imagination anymore. They don't bother to make sequels titled "Son of ..."or "Return of ..."They just number them "Rocky II through XXXIV." The season is beginning, however, with a series that begged for sequels. "Return of the Jedi" concludes the "Star Wars" trilogy. This at least completes the story of Luke and Darth Vader. No word yet on whether George Lucas will follow through his plan for six more movies-three movies-three covering the young days of Darth and Obi Wan, and three following the new order established by the Jedi. Other sequels populate the summer "Stayin' Alive" (the follow-up to "Saturday Night Fever"), "Psycho II," and "Jaws III in 3-D." Three Rocky movies is enough. (There's nothing left for him to do except eventually even-tually ram wheelchairs with an aged Apollo Creed in a twelver-rounder.) Hopefully, it is not true that Stallone also plans to star in "Godfather "God-father HI." I think Coppola said all he wanted with the first two movies. One of the worst ideas for a sequel in the past decade was "More American Graffiti." Graffi-ti." It was a bad mistake. The dramatic theme of "Graffiti" was that these innocent kids in 1962 were headed for the harsh illusion-shattering illusion-shattering years of the 1960s. "More" only stated the obvious, as it showed the kids going through the traumas trau-mas of Vietnam, campus protest, etc. Another trend that's big is remakes. One example this year is "Twilight Zone," a four-episode movie that reportedly re-portedly remakes or reworks stories done on the classic TV show. Generally, I hate remakes. Who can forget the horrid second version of "King Kong" which turned Kong into a wimpy lover for Jessica Lange, and offered a limp satirical diatribe M -- rniirt.ni n. mm Condominium office space now available in Mt. Air Mall for sale or lease Contact: Silver Ring Realty 649-4041 Suite 2004, Mt. Air Mall ii 'l ' t " "" ' """' ' "C . mm V . r -- . .............. j - .. """"" ' "'- , f r . .-.) ir iTfjgr'-'-'-if ntr firm ' " " 1 ' " " "" 1 wHWimW 111 iiW i 1 r - zz3 ..Sim ? T" ' i 'n'l"" ,' , - p ..... . TT against oil companies? Another case: The original "Thing" benefited from subtlety sub-tlety and rapid-fire pacing. Last summer's remake had interesting possibilities for a study in paranoia (in that story, the Thing could disguise dis-guise itself as any human or animal). But the movie became preoccupied in gory make-up effects. One of the more intriguing recent remakes was "Invasion "In-vasion of the Body Snatchers," though it still wasn't up to the original. In the first version, the pods from outer space took over the people in a hum drum little small town. In the second film, they invaded San Francisco where their presence would hardly bother anyone! The pods might even win a seat on the city council! Another category of summer sum-mer movies is the picture that, due to a bureaucratic mix-up, was scheduled to play in the dog days. The musical "Annie" laid an egg last year, and no wonder! Besides being a weak movie, it was more appropriate for the Christmas season. The odds were even higher against Woody Allen's "Midsummer "Mid-summer Night's Sex Comedy," Come-dy," a flawed movie which had no chance competing last year against brash comedies and monster-filled shoot-em-ups. An oddball movie can succeed, however. "An Officer Of-ficer and a Gentleman," an old-fashioned military romance, ro-mance, became the surprise hit of last year. We can't ignore one final category of film the moron comedy. In the last seven years, Burt Reynolds has released a string of summertime summer-time redneck comedies "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run," among others. This year, Reynolds ' stars in "Stroker Ace," and Jackie Gleason plays both title roles in "Smokey is the Bandit." In the tradition of "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," Steve Martin plays "The Man With Two Brains." There will be many "Animal House" teen comedies. (These replaced the "Friday the 13th" slasher movies as the most popular movie formula for kids.) The biggest big-gest recent hit was "Porky's" which has prompted prompt-ed the filmmakers to produce pro-duce "Porky's II." That brings us back to sequels. Summer movie seasons are like eating too many hot dogs. It's fun to binge. But, oh, those stomach-aches afterwards. "irwnsi Tesit silts 4 i ' r"r,i?i i i -- L v I -1 1 ,. . 1 1 .n Chris Skaggs and Allen Titensor Trivia junkies win four in a row Chris Skaggs and Allen Titensor must be turning turn-ing into addL'ts of the Main Street Deli. They sure need their sandwich fix every week. How else can we explain their long list of trivia victories? vic-tories? The pair won their deli sandwich this week by knowing that the singing duo Flo & Eddie was formed by two members of the Turtles singing group. They also knew that the "Hawaii Five-O" hero killed on the show was Chin Ho Kelly, and that Matt Alvarez's dog is named Akala. Will Chris and Allen go through withdrawal symptoms if they don't win this week? Why not challenge them, and find out? Rush the answers to the Park City Newspaper at 649-9014, or come to our offices at 419 Main Street before Tuesday noon. By the way, we are introducing a new trivia category this week for our third question It's called Park City Trivia. We'll try to use it frequently and we hope we can find enough material. After all, nothing in Park City is really trivial! 1. In the mid-1970s, Evel Knievel's most publicized jump turned out to be an anti-climactic failure. What was he attempting to do? 2. Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" opens with what famous line? 3. County Commissioner Cliff Blonquist is '""wn bv v.h t nickname? Even the smallest ads are read! r |